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Waze of making you talk

…. meanwhile, on the M40, my husband and I discovered an exceptionally good and useful traffic information app called Waze.

It’s a real-time based traffic information service, contributed to by normal folk on the roads, who send reports back about accidents and incidents. It is outstanding. We boggled as we came verily upon the accident exactly where the little map said it would be. We marvelled at how the app correctly predicted that the traffic jam would switch to the OTHER side of the road after the accident.

Great stuff – it’s at times like this that the internet really earns its keep.

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It doesn’t predict – well, it does, but it also doesn’t just work on people reporting things. It’s also scanning your velocity and other information in real-time, as it is with all other Waze users. So as soon as Waze users on the other side of the road start to slow down, the system detects that and reports it to you as a slowdown. Clever, eh?